episode_0218

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An old man came into the classroom.

Since Brother Ho was an outsider, he was unable to enter the school building, and it seems that Brother Do-kyung was the only one who came with him.

“This is an elderly woman who is a new herbal medicine teacher and the wife of one of the three great doctors of Jungwon.”

Clap clap!

As his school friends greeted him with enthusiastic applause, the old man looked helpless. It’s a little different from what I expected.

Usually, the grandfathers in our family smile brightly when they see us or other young children.

As expected, the poisonous elder.

As much as it is a problem for adults in the party, it is a formidable opponent!

“Then, please take care of me.”

“Now, wait a minute. Do-kyung! Shouldn’t you at least tell me what to teach?”

“Well. Why not ask your children what they were learning?”

“Do-kyung!”

“Okay, it’s time for me to go to class too. Elderly.”

He is an older brother who has a record of emptying the matriarch’s pocketbook. As expected, there is no mercy for the old man in the dock.

There was silence in the herbal medicine class for a moment. The eyes of my school friends, who were acting with bright eyes, were focused on me.

there’s nothing we can do. I have no choice but to step forward.

“Grandpa!”

“Ha, grandfather?”

“Last time, I decided to make something called Byeokgokdan!”

“Huh, huh…I see. Thank you.”

After all, he is a strong enemy. Grandpas usually like it when you call them grandpa.

But I clenched my fists and recharged my motivation.

Usually, Ryo-ah is beautiful and elegant, but now Ryo-ah is radiating extreme cuteness.

Unni Black Cat and Unni Yeo Il-ye, who knew how cute Ryo-ah was, couldn’t come to their senses when she showed her dressed up like she did now, cheering and kissing her on the cheek, rubbing her cheek, and stroking her head.

lol.

I wish the sisters would pet me again. If you finish this job well, your sisters will pat you on the back, right?

“Yes. Just wait a moment.”

The old man searched the medicine shelf and took out various ingredients and laid them out. It was truly a sight to see dozens of different materials lined up.

“Keuhum, everyone gather together.”

“Yes!”

“I understand!”

The old man in the dock cleared his voice and began to explain.

“What do you think medicine is?”

“Bitter!”

“Tasteless!”

“It’s good for your body!”

“If you eat it, your pain will get better!”

“Hehehe, yes, everything is correct.”

Dokui nodded with a happy smile.

“There are two main types of drugs. One is a medicine that treats pain. The other is a supplement that replenishes the deficiencies in advance to prevent the body from getting sick. The Byeokgokdan we will make today may be a supplement.”

Watching his friends tilt their heads, Dok-ui realized that the explanation was too difficult and changed his words.

“It is said that eating Byeokgokdan will make your body stronger.”

“Wow!”

“Awesome!”

The old man smiled with satisfaction at the children’s reaction and continued his explanation.

“Do you know what this is?”

“It’s rice!”

“That’s right. So do you know what this is?”

“Umm…it’s powder!”

“Hehe! right. Garuji. Then do you know what kind of powder it is?”

“I don’t know!”

The old man in the dock smiled and took out a brush and paper lying on one side and marked the names of various ingredients.

“Pine pollen…?”

“It is pollen from pine trees.”

In addition, there were pine needles, beans, apricots, jujubes, peanuts, chestnuts, licorice, etc.

“Byeokgokdan can be said to be close to rice that can be easily eaten. Haven’t we all tried sweets?”

“Confectionery!”

“I want to eat sugar..”

“Hehehe, strangely enough, didn’t you feel hungry not long after eating the sweets?”

“That’s right!”

“So I want to eat it again!”

“Byeokgokdan is a medicine and food located between rice and sugar. Usually, when I take one pill, it feels like I’ve had a full meal. Let’s make Byeokgokdan by adding the ingredients we each want. To do that, you first have to grind the ingredients in a bowl.”

The old man in the dock gave us simple instructions on how to use the bowl.

“This stick is called a pestle. Instead of hitting the bowl with the pestle, just spin it round and round.”

“Binggeul round~”

“Hehe, those jujubes are too big to grind whole. How about tearing it into small pieces by hand?”

“I will!”

Ryeo and her friends worked hard to grind the ingredients. In Ryo-A’s case, I chose pine needles, beans, and consonants. These are all ingredients that adults avoid, and that children avoid!

“Ryo, it’s amazing! I chose a bitter missing word!”

“Ugh, I don’t like beans..”

“Hehehe, it’s okay for each person to choose the ingredients they like.”

The old man in the dock smiles happily at our conversation. As expected, it was rewarding to decorate it cutely. Even though he is not as cute as Ryo-ah and Ryo-ah, who exude extreme cuteness, he is slowly showing a grandfather-like expression as if the sincerity of his well-dressed friends is shining through.

Each person lined up the ingredients they had grinded on their ring fingers and, after being inspected by the elder, placed them on the scale.

“Try adding ingredients until the scale is balanced.”

Only a certain amount of ingredients remained on each ring finger.

“So now we need to put these ingredients together. What do you think we should do?”

“Press firmly!”

“Because it’s powder, it doesn’t clump together!”

“Got it! Add water!”

“A similar word appears in the correct answer. There are some ingredients that clump together when you add water. However, there are some materials that do not stick even when water is added”

“Hmm…Glue?”

“Then you can’t eat it!”

“Attach with rice glue!”

“Then I will take a break soon.”

After listening to our opinions, Dok-ui took out the box.

“The answer is honey. If you mix it with honey, it becomes rich in nutrients and can be stored for a long time.”

Unbelievable!

Byeokgokdan was a sweet thing! I thought it was medicine and used it without any hesitation, so I chose the missing word!

What a mistake! Is there anything more sad than adding something bitter to something sweet and making it tasteless?

An old man put honey on our ring fingers. The sweet smell makes my mouth water.

“Yonseoks! It’s not a snack, it’s medicine, so you shouldn’t steal it!”

“ing…”

These friends are gulping down their saliva. Ryoa, who felt a sense of crisis as she saw her friends looking at her ring finger as if she was going to dip it in honey at any moment, immediately opened her mouth.

“Everyone! Think about your pockets.”

“Oh, that’s right..!”

There were some friends who seemed to be more intoxicated by the immediate sweetness than the magic, but Ryoa gave them a harsh glare, which pricked them and made them turn their heads.

“Hehe, now try combining the ingredients together using honey.”

Soon a sweet smell began to fill the classroom. The various ingredients and honey stuck to my hands so sticky that I really wanted to eat them… no, it was difficult to put them all together and form a pill shape, but I still started rolling it with the goal of making a round pill that resembled Ryeo.

“Everyone, listen while making it. When making medicine, there will be many things like now. If you put the elixir in front of you, you will be tempted countless times to eat the sweet honey right in front of you, just like you are now. Keep that in mind every time. That the honey you are swallowing right now can heal someone’s pain.”

“Yes!”

“I understand!”

Fortunately, because Ryo-ah glared at him, he didn’t end up inhaling the honey. As expected, Ryoa is amazing. Just now, Gun-eun Black Cat and Yeo Il-ye have done something that deserves to be patted on the head ten or twenty times.

“If you succeed in making a pill, put it down.”

I put down the dandan that I had worked so hard to make until my hands became sticky. When I looked at the other friends’ things, Ryoa’s was the prettiest, even though it was bumpy and crooked.

“You all made it well. As with all things, cleaning up after yourself is important in medicine as well.”

After organizing the Byeokgokdan in a wooden box, we wiped our hands covered in honey and other ingredients, cleaned up the messy classroom, and sat down.

“Then, let’s try the Byeokgokdan we made today.”

“Really?!”

“Wow!”

“Hehe, yes. The most certain way to know the effectiveness of a medicine is to experience it yourself. However, you should not put anything into your mouth.”

The old man returned the Byeokgokdan we had made. As soon as I got it back, the expressions on my friends’ faces turned sour as they quickly put it in their mouths.

“My…”

“Something different from confectionery…”

Lastly, the old man placed Ryeo-ah’s Byeokgokdan in her hands. Ryeo swallowed her saliva, or rather dry saliva, for a moment and held out the Byeokgokdan to the old man.

Is this a phone call? To be honest, if the missing person had not entered, even the patient Ryeo might have succumbed to the temptation of sweet honey.

But Ryeo overcame it.

Truly a decision for the party!

“Aiya…?”

“Grandpa, please eat it too!”

The old man’s eyes trembled. Ryeo looked in the mirror today and gave a practiced smile.

“Grandfather is also part of the family, so you should eat it together!”

“…….”

The old man looked at Ryeo in silence for a while and then nodded.

“I see.”

The old man split Ryeo’s Byeokgokdan in half. The elder put half of the Byeokgokdan in Ryeo’s mouth and then slowly moved his hand to put the other half of Byeokgokdan in her mouth.

“It’s delicious, right?”

“Hehe, I see.”

To be honest, Ryo-ah did not like the bitterness of Gyeolmyeongja, but it seems that it was different for the king, Dokinim.

“It’s the most delicious Byeokgokdan I’ve ever had.”

Why do adults like bitter tastes like alcohol, cigarettes, and tea?

When Ryeo becomes an adult, will she start to like bitter tastes? For some reason, I am hesitant to become a full-fledged adult.

Anyway, I’m glad to hear that the old man said it was the best Byeokgokdan he’d ever tasted.

“Then let’s end today’s class here.”

My friends, who were in the midst of a sweet tooth, seemed to have remembered the strategy and rushed over. Grandparents love things their kids can hold on to.

Oh, but there was a variable. If you hold your pants or sleeves with sticky honey-covered hands, your clothes will get dirty!

“Today was fun!”

“Let’s make sweets together next time!”

“Are you coming tomorrow too?”

“Hehehe, okay, I’ll come tomorrow too.”

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the old man smiling brightly. Seeing that the old man is smiling no different from any other grandfather or grandmother in Dangata, it seems that he has already returned to being a person of Dangga.

My friends and I went out to pick up the old man. I waved with my friends until the old man disappeared along a curved path.

“Ryoya, are you going to teach me pocket magic now?”

“Of course! I’ll let you know starting tomorrow!”

“Oh! Please tell me starting today, I’m curious!”

“It’s time to go home anyway. See you at school tomorrow!”

“Tch!”

Ryeo waved to her friends who were looking at her with regret and then started running.

Ryo-ah is a good child, or rather an adult, who keeps her promises. I don’t lie or cheat.

However, I was tired today. In the end, Ryeo’s plan worked, but the old man was a formidable opponent.

So today, I have to go home quickly, brag a lot in front of Dang Do-gyeong, and get patted by my sisters.

Even if I insist that I sleep with my sisters today, I don’t know if they will accept it. No, I will definitely sleep with you. That’s because Ryo-ah worked hard enough to receive a worthy award today.

With such expectations in mind, Ryeo returned home as if she was half running.